Curtain-hanger



l(No Model.)

M. GAIR.. K CURTAIN HANGER.

:Patented Aug. 28, 1894.

WF1-'7271 ess es; {d/y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARIE GAIR, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CURTAIN-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 525,143, dated August28, 1894.

Application filed December 21, 1893- Serial No, 494,247. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARIE GAIR, of the city of St. Louis, State ofMissouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inOurtain-Hangers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart hereof.

My invention relates to an improved device for draping curtains,portires, dac., and consists in the novel device hereinafter describedand designated in the claim, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings.

The object is to construct a ring for draping curtains, &c., of asinglepiece of wire, or like material, which shall be so formed that it can bemade to engage a curtain at two separate points in the same plane, andthe curtain can be readily attached or detached therefrom withoutmanipulating any other fastening.

In the drawings: Figure l is a plan View of a single piece of wire ofwhich my improved curtain ring is constructed. Fig. 2 is a plan view ofthe piece of wire after it has been flattened intermediate its ends.Fig. 3 is a side elevation, showing the manner in which the piece ofwire is first bent to form theimproved curtain hanger. Fig. 4 is a sideelevation of Fig. 3, showing the same further in the course ofconstruction. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a portion of a curtainpole, showing the position which the rings occupy when placed upon saidpole and in use.

Referring to the drawings: 1 indicates a piece of Wire which is rstsharpened at each end, and then the portion 2 thereof intermediate itsendsis flattened, so that arin g 2a can be formed of such suitable sizethat it will pass over a curtain pole without marrin g said pole ordisfigurin g it as otherwisewould be the case. The wire is next bent soas to form a ring of the flattened portion 2, and the ends thereof areblocked together and the round portions of the wire adjacent each end ofthe flattened portion, is twisted together at 3, and the free ends ofthe wire projecting outward from said twisted portion in alignment witheach other, and then said round portions are fixed at right angles tothe face of the ring and bent downward so they will be parallel witheach other, and they are finally curved up so as to form two parallelhooks 4:, the points of which lie in substantially the same horizontalplane, but in a plane above the curved portions of said hooks.

5 indicates a curtain pole of ordinary construction, one end of which ismounted in an ordinary ornamental bracket 6, which is connected to thewindow or arch casing (not shown), and upon the pole is mounted theimproved curtain rings, and the upper edge of a curtain 7 is placed uponthe hooks 4 as required for supporting said curtain.

It will be seen that the two hooks of a single ring engage the curtainat separate points in the same plane, thereby holding it more securelythan a single hook would.

As an article of manufacture, the improved curtain-ring formed of anintegralpiece of round wire flattened at 2, to leave round por.

tions at each end thereof, and to form a flat body the ends of saidflat-'body being united at a point beneath the same, and said roundportions twisted together at 3 and bent outward in opposite directions,and then downward so that they lie parallel with the twisted portion 3and with each other, and two parallel vertical hooks 4 forming theterminals of said round portions, with their points projecting upward ina horizontal plane common to both points, substantially as hereinspecified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARIE GAIR.

Witnesses:

JN0.' C. HIcDoN, F. T. vBUNYAN.

